Stop the clock!

iPhone users are reeling after a viral post on X (formerly Twitter) revealed a surprising design quirk in the Apple alarm clock — one that’s been hiding in plain sight for years.

iPhone users are shocked to learn that the alarm app’s time picker isn’t a looping wheel, but a long list that ends at exactly 4:39 PM. Di_Ilikaeva – stock.adobe.com

For anyone who’s ever set an alarm on an iPhone, the process seems straightforward. The time picker — the rotating wheel of numbers — gives the impression of a spilling wheel users can scroll through endlessly as the numbers continue to loop.

However, a user on X recently shattered this long-held assumption by revealing that the alarm time picker isn’t truly circular at all. Instead, it’s just an extremely long, linear list of tim

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